50 Years of ‘Saturday Night Live’: The Best Moments, Decade By Decade

Saturday Night Live and I were born in 1975, and we grew up together. My first TV memory is from 1978 and Steve Martin’s Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber, prescribing a liberal bloodletting to all who entered his shop. (A 3-year-old watching SNL? Take that up with my mom.)

Back in my day, we didn’t have on-demand video or smartphones to watch SNL. We had to watch it live on TV or we taped it with a VCR and had to FF through Whitney Brown’s commentary so we could finally watch Jon Lovitz’s Annoying Man. That’s the way it was, and we liked it!